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#680
by
ShuttleDiscovery
on 12 May, 2007 11:44
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#681
by
mkirk
on 12 May, 2007 15:24
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FYI;
As most of you heard yesterday, the current plan is to rollout to the pad on Tuesday morning.
Call to Stations for Rollout has been scheduled for 12:01 am eastern time, with first motion targeted for 4:00 am.
Mark Kirkman
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#682
by
Chris Bergin
on 12 May, 2007 15:27
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No, they said the 16th yesterday. We've been trying to confirm Tuesday as the new date.
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#683
by
mkirk
on 12 May, 2007 15:29
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Chris Bergin - 12/5/2007 10:27 AM
No, they said the 16th yesterday. We've been trying to confirm Tuesday as the new date.
Actually Mike Lienbach said they wanted to Roll early (i.e. Tuesday) but it would only occur if the platform retracts occured over the weakend. They will know for sure if Tuesday can be done sometime late tomorrow. Current processing schedule shows Tuesday at this time.
Mark Kirkman
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#684
by
Chris Bergin
on 12 May, 2007 15:40
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I've been thrown by the guy who's reading this out over the phone:
"Call to stations brief 850214 STS117 rollout planned for 0001 Tuesday, May 14th with first motion 04:00 Tuesday. "
Tuesday's the 15th (which is what confused me as it looked like a two day jump at first look)
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#685
by
mkirk
on 12 May, 2007 15:48
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Chris Bergin - 12/5/2007 10:40 AM
"Call to stations brief 850214 STS117 rollout planned for 0001 Tuesday, May 14th with first motion 04:00 Tuesday. "
I'm not sure what he said, but it should read "A5214" which is the OMI document for Rollout.
Mark Kirkman
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#686
by
shuttlefan
on 13 May, 2007 00:31
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Chris Bergin - 12/5/2007 10:40 AM
I've been thrown by the guy who's reading this out over the phone:
"Call to stations brief 850214 STS117 rollout planned for 0001 Tuesday, May 14th with first motion 04:00 Tuesday. "
Tuesday's the 15th (which is what confused me as it looked like a two day jump at first look)
So they are now targetting 4:00am Tuesday?
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#687
by
Jackson
on 13 May, 2007 02:14
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That's what they are hoping for, yes.
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#688
by
shuttlefan
on 13 May, 2007 14:35
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Have they moved the crawler under the launch platform yet?
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#689
by
DaveS
on 13 May, 2007 14:37
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shuttlefan - 13/5/2007 4:35 PM
Have they moved the crawler under the launch platform yet?
No. That is done on the day of the rollout.
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#690
by
Chris Bergin
on 13 May, 2007 15:02
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"STS 117 / OV104 / VAB HB1
Platform retracts started this morning in preparation for call to stations 850214 (As Mark states, this should actually be A5214) Which is the shuttle vehicle transfer to the pad. This will occur Tuesday morning."
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#691
by
Chris Bergin
on 13 May, 2007 15:10
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By the way, we'll be moving to a new thread (and not for the first time with 117) for rollout and pad latest, which will be the new home for updates until the launch countdown thread.
At some point during the pad latest thread, we'll have a seperate thread for launch weather - likely about two weeks prior to the NET June 8 launch target - which will be RDale's (Rob) charge, who is our resident expert meteorologist.
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#692
by
Mark Dave
on 13 May, 2007 17:58
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I don't think the rollout will be seen on the public tv channel as I can't see anything about it on the BreakingNews page for NASA TV.
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#693
by
DaveS
on 13 May, 2007 18:12
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MarkD - 13/5/2007 7:58 PM
I don't think the rollout will be seen on the public tv channel as I can't see anything about it on the BreakingNews page for NASA TV.
It's still weekend you know! We'll know for sure by this time tommorow.
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#694
by
rdale
on 13 May, 2007 22:22
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Chris Bergin - 13/5/2007 11:10 AM
we'll have a seperate thread for launch weather - likely about two weeks prior to the NET June 8 launch target - which will be RDale's (Rob) charge
Early outlook - partly fair with a chance of not fair...
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#695
by
astrobrian
on 14 May, 2007 04:28
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And a slight hint of fire smoke for texture too. Hopefully those don't wreak havoc with Rollout
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#696
by
DaveS
on 14 May, 2007 12:00
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astrobrian - 14/5/2007 6:28 AM
And a slight hint of fire smoke for texture too. Hopefully those don't wreak havoc with Rollout
They won't. They have rolloed out in very thick fog before with the most notable one being the STS-6 rollout of Challenger.
Latest exposure forecast for the rollout. Doesn't look too good with the chances of thunderstorms as the rules state that the Crawler must be stopped if lightning is detected within 20 miles of it no matter where the Crawler is on the crawlerway.
The second one shows the exposure forecast for Monday.
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#697
by
DaveS
on 14 May, 2007 13:16
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NASA.gov reports that rollout has been moved up with first motion set for 12:01 am EDT Tuesday.
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#698
by
Mark Nguyen
on 14 May, 2007 15:09
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Awesome! Will NASA TV Have a schedule release today?
Mark
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#699
by
DaveS
on 14 May, 2007 15:14
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Mark Nguyen - 14/5/2007 5:09 PM
Awesome! Will NASA TV Have a schedule release today?
Mark
Beats me. No news on this yet.
